--- Gabe Menezes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://in.rediff.com/news/2005/mar/24taj.htm > > Was Taj Mahal a Shiv temple? > > March 24, 2005 13:13 IST > Last Updated: March 24, 2005 13:34 IST > > Bharatiya Janata Party leader Vinay Katiyar on > Wednesday claimed that > the Taj Mahal in Agra was actually a Shiva temple > built by Raja Jai > Singh and was named 'Tejo Mai Mahal'. >
Yeah! Like Bombay was named after Mumba Devi - 'twasn't the Portuguese who called it Bom Baim (Good Bay). Question: Is Mahal an Indian word (derived from Sanskrit) or a Moghul word? I ask the linguists on this forum as I do not know. Cheers, Gabriel de Figueiredo. Melbourne - Australia. Find local movie times and trailers on Yahoo! Movies. http://au.movies.yahoo.com
